[NCLUG] Mandrake kills MS

James DeWitt jdewitt at verinet.com
Sun Mar 28 12:01:51 MST 2004


Sorry, they have apparently changed the time website.  
This is the page with the animated Java clock, but you
may get a static time snapshot if Java is not working:

http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java

JD

On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:53 am, James DeWitt wrote:
> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> I don't know what happened with your XP partition, but it would likely
> break Mandrake badly to just reinstall XP now.
>
> However, OpenOffice does a fine job of reading and writing most MS office
> formats, and it is pretty simple to enable Mozilla to support Java.
> For example, I have Mozilla 1.4.2, and the 1.4.2_03 JDK from Sun installed
> in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03 (the version numbers are coincidental).
>
> The Java plugin is enabled by making a symlink in the Mozilla plugin
> directory like so:
>
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins:
>
>     libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>     libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
>            
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> libnullplugin.so
>
> An easy site to test your Java configuration on is:
> http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7
>
> Hope this helps,
> JD
>
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:17 am, Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet wrote:
> > just when I thought I had it working,
> >  I tried to switch to Windows since mozilla doesn't support java 1.2
> > runtime, and i need to view a ppt file,
> >
> > and now WIndows won't load!  I think Mandrake's install of 10.0
> > overwrote on the windows partition to perhaps install lilo?
> >
> > Now i get:
> > "File is missing or corrupt
> > <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
> > Please re-install a copy of the above file.
> >
> >
> > I tried to boot from the CD, but (and i noticed this with
> > the Mandrake cd 1 install disk too),
> > my system doesn't seem to recognize a boot cd disk anymore!
> > (and of course I don't make floppy boot disks, blech)
> >
> > SO NOW can someone help me figure this one out.
> > Anyone explain what happened?
> > What would then happen if i try to reinstall Windows XP?
> > and how do i make a windows xp boot disk from linux?
> >
> > that was so Micro$oft of Mandrake to overwrite someone else's
> > partition!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!
> >
> > thanks,
> > -lost and confuzzled
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